Prof. Emeritus Vesna Popovic

DESIGN RESEARCH JUROR

Vesna Popovic (PhD) is a Professor Emeritus/ in Industrial Design at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. Her research focuses on experience and expertise, intuitive interaction, intuitive navigation, and product design. Vesna’s research impact lies in the cross-fertilisation of knowledge across the humanities and technologies to design humanised artifacts/ systems by facilitating the understanding of diverse expertise and experience. In particular, she was a co-founder of the Industrial Design Course and founder and Director of the People and Systems (PAS) Lab domain at QUT. Vesna has been published widely and has received many awards. Vesna is a Fulbright scholar. She is a Fellow of the Design Research Society (UK) and the Design Institute of Australia (DIA). She is a member of ACM, CHI, and DMI. She is the recipient of four Australian Research Council grants. Vesna was a World Design Organisation (WDO) /ICSID Executive Board member (1997 – 2001). She is a Regional Adviser of WDO currently and a Good Design Australia Ambassador